QUESTIONS:  1: If God already has our future planned can we influence God's decisions? For example, if you have a friend in the hospital and asked God to save her and she died. Could you have influenced God to save her if you prayed for her to be saved? Or is it that God already decided that she would die, and your prayer wouldn't have influenced Him. If so, then what's the point of praying and asking in the first place? Matt. 7:7-8; James 4:2-3; Jeremiah 29:11; Genesis 20:17; Numbers 11:2; Numbers 21; Deuteronomy 9; 1 Samuel 1:10, 27; Nehemiah; Isaiah 38; Acts 12; 1 Timothy 2:8; James 5:16-18; Jonah 3; Acts 2:42  2: What's the difference between suicide and sacrifice? (In regards to Genesis 12-22) Genesis 22; Hebrews 10:11-14; 2 Corinthians 5; Judges 9:54; 1 Samuel 31:4; Judges 16:28-30; 1 Samuel 31:5; 2 Samuel 17:23; 1 Kings 16:18; Matthew 27:5; 'Suicide Is Not An Option' by Tim Rupp